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Polly Oliver's problem : a story for girls
- Title
- Polly Oliver's problem : a story for girls / by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923
- Publication
- Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; Cambridge : Riverside Press, 1893
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 3988.9.373 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 212 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 18 cm
- Summary
- Pauline Oliver, in Polly Oliver's Problem, chafes against spending the rest of her life helping her mother run a boarding house--then must take charge when the Widow Oliver suffers poor health and must move to a healthier clime.
- Subject
- Youth > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction
- Boardinghouses > Juvenile fiction
- Fatherless families > Juvenile fiction
- Sick > Juvenile fiction
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction
- Storytelling > Juvenile fiction
- Boardinghouses
- Conduct of life
- Fatherless families
- Friendship
- Mothers and daughters
- Sick
- Storytelling
- Youth > Conduct of life
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Fiction.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Publishers' advertisements – 1893.
- Romans.
- Note
- Publisher's advertisements precede text.
- Binding designed by Sarah Whitman.
- Provenance (note)
- Presentation copy to Mrs. Hutton with author's autograph.
- LCCN
- 04016482
- OCLC
- ocm00169976
- 169976
- SCSB-801000
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library